First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title "Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola". This 1911 edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, is illustrated by Newell Convers Wyeth.

Note: The scans on which these pages are based are missing the captions for some illustrations, probably due the fragility of the translucent pages on which the captions were printed. The text of the missing captions can be found in the Illustrations section at the bottom of this page.

1194278Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson1911

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Copyright, 1911, by

Charles Scribner's Sons

Published September, 1911

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TO

LLOYD OSBOURNE,

AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN,

IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHOSE CLASSIC TASTE

THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE HAS BEEN DESIGNED,

IT IS NOW, IN RETURN FOR NUMEROUS DELIGHTFUL HOURS,

AND WITH THE KINDEST WISHES,

Dedicated

BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR

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TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER

If sailor tales to sailor tunes,⁠Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons⁠And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold⁠Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,⁠The wiser youngsters of to-day:

—So be it, and fall on! If not,⁠If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,⁠Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:⁠So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave⁠Where these and their creations lie!